Improved buggy-top bow-setter



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Buggy Top. No. 90,965. y 'Patented June 8, 1869.

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OBEDIAH SMITH, OF BLOOMINGTON, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF, MICHAEL Y.

`GIVLER, AND VILLIAM H. ROSER, OF SAME PLACE. I

Letters Patent No. 90,965, dated .Tune 8, v1869.

IMPROVED BUG-G-Y-TOP BOW-SETTER.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, OBEDIAH SMITH, of Bloomington, in the State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Buggy-Top Bow-Setters; and' I do hereby declare that 'the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and letters of reference marked thereon, making a part of' this specification, in which- Figure 1 is a side elevation, and

Figure 2, a side'view of' one of its sides.

This invention relates to a machine for setting' the wooden bows Vthat form the skeleton of a buggy-top, and

' It consists 'of a box-loop, which slides upon the horizontal cross-bar of the bow-setter, and sustains -the vertical rest which supports the bows at their tops, the said loop being so constructed that it may be fixed at any point of the said cross-bar, and may also be fastened to any point of the said rest, so as to set the bows as far apart and as high as may be desired.

To enable those skilled in the art to make and use my invention, I now proceed to describe its construction and operation.

Similar letters in the drawings refer to like parts.

In the drawings'- A is the base of the bow-setter, said base being temporarily attached to the carriage-seat by means of a screw at one end and a spring-bar, c", at the other end, fitting into a slot in the edge of the base.

From the base rises an upright, a, to any convenient height, which upright is so coupled, by means of the loop a', furnished with a set-screw at one end, to another upright, that the latter may be adjustable vertically in the loop.

Upon the top of the latter upright is the cross-bar b', which cross-bar is so coupled to an additional crossbar b", by means of a loop or loops c, furnished each with a set-screw ,at oneend, that the cross-bar b" may be adjustable horizontally in said loop or loops.

There are additional loops upon the cross-bar b', and

on the other side of the upright a, which do not serve to couple the cross-bar, but sustain the vertical rests d, which support the bows at their tops.'

All the loops are furnished with set-screws, and may be tixed at any point of the said cross-bar, and in them the vertical rests may be fastened at any point.

Thus, by means of the loops c the cross-bars may be adjusted horizontally, so as to lengthen or shorten them, and the bows may be set as far apart and as high as desired.

The upright, the cross-bars b b, and the vertical rest ll are all inscribed with a scale, indicating inches and parts of inches, for adjusting the bows to required measurements. A V

It is to be observed that the base A, with its described system of uprights,crossbars, and rests, forms only one side of my bow-setter, there being another side of exactly the same construction, not shown in the drawings, which two sides are connected by two crossbars, furnished with a loop and set-screw like c', so that the two sides may be set as near together as required.

I am aware of the patent of H. C. Hoover, dated March 24,1868, for a buggy-top bow-setter, which mine somewhat resembles, but which mine differs from, and is an improvement on in respect to the loops c, their capability of adjustment upon any part of the cross-bars, their capacity of attachment to the vertical f rests at any point of the latter, and their aptitude to the dischargeof j all these functions Without slots in the cross-bars or vertical rests, which tend to weaken them.

Having thus described my invention, What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The loop c, in combination ,with the cross-bar b' and the vertical rest ll. as and for the purpose set forth. OBEDIAH SMITH. Witnesses:

E. PL-Ar'r, JOHN F. Ewme. 

